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Newspaper Page Text8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1907. (Sternum BCBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVAUCS. (By Mall.) ' Pally. Sunday Included, on year 18 00 Dally. Sunday Included six months.... 4.29 ally, Sunday Include, three month.. 2.25 lally, Sunday Included, one month. ... .T5 laj:y, without Sunday, one year COO Ialiy. without Sunday, six months.... 8 38 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.73 Dally, without 8unday, on month. ... .00 Sunday, one year 60 Weekly, one year (Issued Thureday).... 1.60 Sunday and Weekly, on year B CARRIER. Dally, Sunday Included, one year .00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month. ... .79 HOW TO REMIT Send poetofflce money order, express order, or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Olv postoftlc ad dress in full, including county and stat. POSTAUB KATES. . . Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postoffloe as becond-ciass Matter. 1 0 to Is Pacts I cent IS to 23 Pages '. 3 cents 0 to 41 Pages S cent efl to 60 Pagea. ." cent Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage Is not fully prspald are not torwarded to . destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The H. C. Becawltn, Special Agency New York, rooms s-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 010-012 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chlrago Auditorium Annex, Posteff.ta News Co.. 178 Dearborn at. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton A Kendrlck. 806-012 Seventeenth etreet: Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. 8. Rice. Kansas City," Mo. Rlcksecxer Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut; Sosland News Co. Minneapolis m. J. Cavanaugh, 50 South Third; Eagle News Co., corner Tenth and Eleventh; Yoma News Co., " Cleveland, O James Pushaw. 80T Su perior street. Washington. D. C. EbbUt House, Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia, Pa Ryan's Theater Ticket offlre; Penn News Co. New York city L. Jones 'Co., Astor House; Broadway Theater News Stand; Ar thur Hotaling Wagons Atlantic City, N. J. Ell Taylor. Osden D. L Boyle, W. O. Kind. 114 Twenty-fifth street. Omaha Ftarkalow Bros., Union Station; XlRKeatri Stationer)- Co. Dee Molnee, la. Mose Jacob. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 439 K street; Amos News Co. Salt Lake Moon Book & Stationery Co. : RosmifeM A Hansen. Los Angeles B. El. Amos, manager seven street wagons. San Diego B. B. Amos. Long Beach, Cel. B. E. Amos. Santa Barbara, Cal. John Preehel. San Jose, Cal. St. James Hotel New Stand El Paso, Tex. Plaxa Book and New Stand. Fort Worth. Tex. F. Robinson. Amarlllo, Tex. Bennett News Co. San Frnoclsco Foster A Crear; Fem News Stand; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Parent; N. - Wheetley ; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.: United News Apents, 11 Eddy street. Oakland, Cal. W. II. Johnson. Fourteenth, and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oak land News Stand: Hale News Co. Gnlilfleld, Nev. Louie Pollln. Enreka, Cal Call-Chronicle Agency. Norfolk, Vs. Potts A Roeder; AnAricaa News Co. Pine Beach. Ta W. A. Coegrove. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, AVG. CI, 1807. A COWARDLY SAMSON. The old poetical statement that "no rogue e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of. the law" seems quite appropriate In the ease of John D. Rockefeller, who Is just at present be wailing the policy of the Administra tion regarding' offenders of the Rocke feller stripe. In an Interview printed In the New York World of August 13, Just received in Portland, the richest man on earth predicted "disaster to the country, financial depression and flnan cail chaos" as a result of "the policy of the present Administration toward great business combinations of all tinds." There are unquestionable signs that Mr. Rockefeller and his fellow offenders against the laws of the coun try are not unwilling to participate in a temporary display of business de pression and "financial chaos." They seem desirous of emulating Samson of old, except that in pulling down the financial temple they have first assured their own safety. MrT Rockefeller errs when he ascribes to the Administration a hostility toward "great business combinations of all kinds." There are a great many honest industrial enterprises included under such a heading that will run on indefinitely without any Govern ment interference. The policy against which Rockefeller protests so strongly Is directed solely and exclusively against the men and corporations that have violated the laws. It is directed against xthose who by means of secret rebates and by the wildest kind of financial legerdemain have crushed all competition, have pauperized individ uals and communities, corrupted Leg islatures, and by a thouand other dark and underhanded methods brought the laws of the country into contempt. The Nation has been treated to some startling disclosures since this cam paign against high finance began, and It is perhaps no occasion for wonder that some fright has been caused. Mr. Rockefeller assures us that "confidence has gone." This is hardly correct, but, as far as the statement has any feat ures of truth, the departure of confi dence has-been hastened by the actions and policies of just such men as John D. Rockefeller. If the mere disclosure of these cankering sores on our eco nomic system is to be accompanied by such direful results, there Is all the more reason why immediate steps should be taken for effecting a cure. If the disease is permitted to run on unchecked, It will naturally foe only a question of time until it reaches a point where we will experience "finan cial chaos" in all that the term can rossibly imply. The application of a cure at this time, drastic as It may seem, will be much better In the long run than to permit continuance of the evils which are responsible for most of the lack of confidence that Is now tightening the money market in the East. It is In the power of men like Rocke feller, Morgan, Rogers and others of their class to aid materially In creating or maintaining a "panicky" situation for an Indefinite period, and, through out his long, complaining and vindic tive interview In the World he conveys the Impression that, having made a co lossal fortune mostly by unlawful methods, he Is now willing to sacrifice a portion of it in order to bring into contempt or censure the Administra tion that has called a halt on his un lawful practices. But the threats or the predictions of further mischief by the spoiled child will not prevent the. 'Vise parent from administering pun ishment when it is needed, and the whines and gloomy predictions of John D. Rockefeller will not serve to stay the hand of the law, .which, somewhat belated, has at last secured a firm grip 7n- the worst offenders. An Omaha news dispatch says that '.he Union Pacific is planning a sys ematlc campaign to induce immi- grants to this country "to come West and1 work In the coal mines. Despite the fact that Japanese working in the mines are making as high as $120 per month, the company Is unable to mine enough coal to meet its own demands, and several shiploads of coal are being Imported from Australia to' help out the shortage. The plan is a good one, and It might be enlarged to advant age In other branches of labor be sides coal mining. A few thousand laborers to chop cord wood, more thousands to work on railroad con struction, and still more thousands In the.' harvest fields, and on the fruit farms, would be of inestimable value to the Pacific Northwest. If six dol lars per cord continues the ruling fig ure for a poor grade of wood, the people will not inquire too closely re garding the color of the skin of the applicant for the work. SOME GRAVER THOUGHTS. To bring matters up to date we premise that Dr. J. R. Straton preached a sermon not long ago on "The Old God for the New Age," which seemed to us to advocate a return to faith In the tribal deity of the ancient Jews. The Oregonian ventured some comment thereupon to the purport that the new age needs a new and more adequate concept of God. Then came Dr. Cllne with a letter holding that the primitive Jewish - deity was all sufficient. And finally Dr. Straton returns with the statement, printed elsewhere, that by "the God of our fathers" he meant, not Jehovah at all,but the heavenly father revealed by. Jesus. It is a pity that he and Dr. Cllne did not consult before either of them wrote. The line of de fense might then have been more con sistent. If Dr. Straton really meant the all father by the phrase he used, we have only to say that he should have urged an advance, not a "return," to that concept. The churches are nearer to it today than they ever were before, but It is still far ahead of them. "Our fathers" never worshiped the God of Jesus. Dr. Straton is mistaken about that point. Their deity was the Jeho vah of the Old Testament. Jesus' great concept of fatherhood In the deity was slow to make Its way, and Is still only partially understood or accepted. A century ago it had no standing what ever In the churches. Dr. Straton's quotation from the Wall-Street Journal is unfortunate for his case. "The religion that our fath ers and brothers used to have" Is pre cisely the kind that the stock gam blers and grafting plutocrats like best; because they can profess its worn-out formulas without any hindrance what ever to their evil doings. For the prob lems of the new age we need a restate ment of faith. The old was good in its day, tout Its day is past. Why not look ahead Instead of 'backward? Why put new wine Into old bottles? Men of today have not "lost their faith In the true God." They are just finding It, and It Is something far more precious than the arid dogmas of the past. With only the old faith to guide us, we fell Into unspeakable national sin. The new Is bringing us to spir itual and economic salvation. As to. the Sunday newspapers. It may be doubted whether they keep anybody, young or old, away from Sunday school or sermon. Quite likely their readers would find some other "secular" occu pation for Sunday morning if the pa pers were suppressed. The way to get people to church Is to give them some thing worth going to hear. Tirades against competing attractions will not avail much. The Oregonian flatters it self that its Sunday edition furnishes spiritual and ethical pabulum quite as nutritious as the supply from the aver age pulpit. Why should It benefit a person more to hear the truth from a preacher than to read it in a paper? The employes of the newspapers' are not denied "a day of rest and wor ship." Every one of them has one day in seven to spend as he likes. "God's law of the Sabbath" was a late inven tion of the priestly oligarchs of the Jews to foster the savage Jehovlstlc cult. It Is too late In the day to try to Impose It upon the modern world. A SCHOOL. OF RAILROADING. Railroading as a business has come from nothing up to proportions so vast and with ramifications so subtle, in less than half a century, that its vol ume and Intricacies are practically in comprehensible to the ordinary mind. The need of special training for the work. In detail, is recognized by the heads of various railroad, departments, and the establishment of a school to supply this need a National school of railroading, so-called is promised in the near future. It is said that fully 200,000 men are needed In addition to those now engaged in operating and transportation departments of the great railroads to meet the require ments of traffic and of business. According to a late dispatch from Chicago, a dozen of the larger railway systems of the country are ready tof give earnest support to a school of rail roading conducted on the correspond ence plan. It is asserted that ithe rudiments of railroad operation could be taught by this means In a way and to a degree that would fit men already physically qualified for employment In positions that carry good wages and the promise of advancement according to the ability that may be developed. As an Incentive to young men to fit themselves for 'these positions, the plan proposes that the tuition that is con tingent upon the study of railroading be refunded to the students by the railroads. In the service of which they prove their proficiency and remain for an entire year. The nee dof trained labor in large excess of that which Is at present ' available In railway transportation business would be strongly emphasized by the liberal indorsement toy the rail road managers of this idea of training men for the service. Not to go Into full details of the plan, it may toe well to note that It embodies the proposi tion that those who pass examination with a marking of 75 per cent and over shall be guaranteed an immediate trial by one of the railroads interested, fol lowed by a position in a reasonable time if the trial proves satisfactory. Among the men whose names presum ably with their sanction are mentioned In connection with the proposed school are: F. B. Underwood, president of the Erie; E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe; T. P. Shonts, of New Tork City, and the presidents of the Rock Island and Northwestern roads. Technical instruction, cannot, of course, be depended upon to supplant or be an entire substitute for experi ence in railroading. The same thing can be said of civil engineering. But that it will pave the way that, followed by experience, will lead to results more quickly than the old way of beginning at the brakes and working on to re sponsible official position, can hardly be more doubtful In the one case than in the other. Time Is saved by the newer methods of acquiring knowledge of a business or profession. This Is a consideration by no means to be de spised in an age that is crying aloud for men of intelligence, energy and skill to work out Its complicated prob lems of commerce. Industry, trade and transportation. SIR. TAFT. At last the tariff has emerged into practical politics. Leaving Mr. Bryan to wander through the highways and hedges In search of an issue, Mr. Taft inscribes "tariff reform" on his banner and -boldly gives it to the breeze. We quite agree with him that it would be "unwise and unsafe" for the Republi can party to shirk Its duty in the premises a great while longer. It Is a serious question whether It is wise to postpone revision until after the Presidential election. Irritation with the rising cost of living grows apace. For much of the prevalent dif ficulty in making both-ends meet the tariff Is responsible, and the voters may possibly hold the Republican party responsible for the tariff In a way that will not be pleasant. Mr. Taft's declaration for revision is by no means too early. We hope it is not too late. i He is the only Republican Presiden tial candidate now openly in the field who stands for principles that can win in the next election. The people like Mr. Cannon well enough, tout his stand pat theories are stale. If Mr. Fair banks has any principles, he conceals them remarkably well. Mr. Foraker's opposition to Roosevelt and champion ship of the oppressed negroes and per secuted corporations would not carry him far. Mr. Taft alone of the avowed candidates seems adapted by his predi lections and principles for the leader ship which Mr. Roosevelt will lay down a year from next March. We may hear from Mr. Hughes later. The people are pleased with his open adoption of the President's policies. They also like his frank habit of ex pressing his views. The politician who models his conduct upon the clam has had his day. It Is the fashion now to possess principles and not to be afraid or ashamed to tell what they are. The fashion is a good one. and it Is an Im portant element in Mr. Taft's strength that he can follow it without affecta tion. A strong. Wholesome, lovable man, he would fill the Presidential chair not only weightily, but nobly. , THE PRESIDENT AT PROVINCETOWN. In his" speech at Provincetown the President selected two classes of men for particular animadversion. They were those "who would seek to lead us into the paths of Ignoble ease," on the one hand, and "those who would teach us to admire successful 'wrongdoing" on the other. Mr. Roosevelt thinks that "the true doctrine to preach to this Nation is not the life of ease, but the life of effort." Still it must be effort of the right kind. Those who would lead us "into the paths of ignoble ease" are the "lalssez faire theorists." These exasperating doctrinaires contend that if you let everything alone it will come right of itself. It is one of their cardinal the ories never to wind the clock. In course of time, they argue, some con vulsion of Nature is sure to occur which will either smash the clock or coll up the spring.' In either case the labor of winding will have been made useless. These are the fantastic people who teach that supply and demand regulate monopoly prices; that the pro tection of dangerous machinery de prives worklngmen of their liberty to get killed, and that railroad freight tariffs make themselves. But perhaps their most whimsical dogma Is that the makers of the Federal Constitution solved all possible problems of govern ment for all time to come. For this ineptitude the President has little favor. "The problems shift from generation to generation," he declares. "The Puritan tamed the wilderness and built up a free government amid the primeval forest. His descendants must try to shape the life of our complex civilization by new devices, by new methods, so as to achieve in the end the same results of justice and fair dealing toward all." The President as serts that "wo of today face wholly new conditions in our social and indus trial life," and these "utterly changed conditions necessitate changes in cer tain of our laws, of our governmental methods." y He has particularly in mind a change In the behavior of the Federal Gov ernment toward the "business use of those vast fortunes, chiefly corporate, which are used in Interstate business.' Mr. Roosevelt pretty plainly intimates that we must abandon our laissez falre principles in respect to these fortunes;, that we "must create new agencies to deal effectively with them," and that ultimately the American people Is cer tain to find It necessary "to' exercise over the great corporations a thorough going and radical control." ( For the railroad corporations he urges "a simi lar supervision and control to that which the National Government exer cises over the National banks." This change in the Federal behavior toward corporate wealth involves a change in the traditional relations be tween the Nation and the states. We must cease to treat these relations like problems in abstract logic, as if they" were matters of theology and mathe matics, and begin to apply our common sense to them. In an admirable pas sage the President says: "It seems to me that such questions as National sovereignty and state's rights need to be treated not empirically or academ ically, but from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole. Na tional sovereignty is to be upheld in so far as it means thesovereignty of the people used for the real and ultimate good of the people; and state's rights are to be upheld in so far as they mean the people's rights." After all, what is government for except to safe guard and serve "the peoples rights"? And what value has any theory or device' except in so far as it accom plishes this end? Believing that "the effort to control these corporations by mere state action cannot produce wholesome results," the President declares that he favors "a rational incorporation law for corpora tions engaged in interstate business," and particularly for the railroads. That the railroads "can toe completely con trolled in all respects by the Federal Government" he does not doubt. If the Interstate commerce clause of the Con stitution does not give full authority, he finds all that is necessary in the postroads clause. Mr. Roosevelt looks upon the present laws for regulating the railroads as merely initial steps In a process by no means complete. His purpose is to proceed "farther along ine lines marked out Dy recent Na: tional legislation": and he hopes tha the Legislatures, the people,-and par ticularly the courts, can be "educated" to see "what the real wrongs are and what the real remedies." Mr. Roosevelt thinks that the Sher man law was largely an experiment, and, perhaps, not a very successful one. But its prohibition of injurious combinations "must always -be pre served." Some Combinations, however, are not injurious. These he would like to see legalized when they are made "with absolute openness" under' Gov ernmental supervision. , The . President is at some' pains to explain why the Government does not send the magnates to prison Instead of fining the corporations. For one thing, it is easier to get evidence against the corporation. But there is also a senti ment that a man is a good citizen, "no matter how Infamous the life he has led," until he Is proved guilty of some particular crime, and this makes con victions difficult. He cites the recent case of the licorice trust, where the Jury convicted the corporation but cleared the magnates on the same evi dence. This whole matter Is beset with difficulties. The public should be pa tient with the Department of Justice. It Is no small achievement in the last six years to have shown "that there is no individual and no corporation so powerful" as to stand "above the pos sibility of punishment under the law." "The wrongdoers, the beneficiaries of the wrongdoers, and their champions," coirfbine, of course, to hinder the trust prosecutions. On the one hand they shriek that the prosecutions are insin cere, mere demagoguery; on the other, that they are responsible for the troubles in the stock market. The President points out that these troubles, being world-wide, cannot be caused by the cohviction of our local criminals, but he suggests that these enraged plutocrats have combined "to bring aboiA as much financial distress as they possibly can in order to dis credit the Government's policy and thereby secure a reversal of that pol icy so that theyiay enjoy the fruits of their evildolng." All this, Mr. Roosevelt says, will .be in vain. "Once for all, let me remind you that there will be no change in the policy we have steadily pursued." - The President closed his speech with brief references to labor and . health legislation, and a mere reminder of the income and Inheritance taxes. Evident ly his main purpose was to define his position with respect to the great cor porations, and he certainly succeeded. The estate of James John, founder of St. Johns a fine property bequeathed with generous intent to educational purposes has been managed or mis managed until of forty blocks of land located In the heart of the rising little city on the peninsula but a single block remains. Full half of the tract was confiscated by litigation, and the rest, with the single exception noted, was sold far below its present value. The result , is only another example in the long line of probate confiscation, aided by a will that did not meet the technical requirements of the law. It suggests again the wisdom of making philanthropic bequests and backing them by duly executed deeds while yet the devisee is in the body and able to explain, so that no lawyer, however wily, can distort or pervert his mean ing, just what he wants to do with or have done with his property after he is through with it. , - Charles Stelneger, aged 80 years, a veteran of the Civil War and a ward of the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg (when he would stay there), is fhe latest vic tim of the suicidal mania that has pre vailed in this city during the present month. No man can expect much of life after 80 years, yet since it is man ifest that he will not pass this way again, it would seem that even a vet eran of four-score might summon suffi cient courage and patience to see the play out and wait until Nature rings the curtain down. The serenity with which patient even if suffering age re ceives the final call of the messenger neither inviting nor protesting his coming, is in sharp and pleasing con trast with the impatience that cannot wait yet a little longer for the grim order of Nature to be fulfilled. A real live prince has arrived at Jamestown, and, if he could be caged and placed among the exhibits, the waning Interest In that unfortunate show might toe revived. Unfortunately for Jamestown, the prince who halls from Sweden, has been captured by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and will be used at Newport to show one set of yellow rich that it is small potatoes and few in a hill compared with thse who have the attraction In charge. As to the prince well, Sweden is sending real men over in the steerage every day who are of more value to the country than the prince could be if he loafed around Newport for a thousand years. A councilman and a street superin tendent have been indicted in Boston for bribery in connection with a mu nicipal loan. In some torances of lan guage, Boston Is said to have a dia lect exclusively her own. It would seem, however, from this bribery story, that "money talks" in Boston in about the same language as is used in San Francisco and at the intervening stations. Of course we're all glad to welcome the grandson of King Oscar, who will get a glimpse of the edge of America, but how much greater would be our joy and his satisfaction if the young Prince could see the United States. Our last royal European visitor missed a lot, even though Prince Henry traveled as far west as the town made famous by his National beverage. , The site for the Waverly-Rlchmond School building -Is at once beautiful and ample. It will toe built upon next year to accommodate the growing needs of that portion of our wide school district. The purchase at this time is regarded as a Judicious one and the location as in every way desirable. When Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish enter tains Prince Wilhelm, the list of nota ble guests not present will include the Harriman family. A rift may be seen in the clouds which have hung over San Francisco. There will be a clean police board and a new chief. Lest Oregon forget blessings, be it remembered that no devastating forest fires occurred this year. It 13 reasonably certain that the steel trust will not work overtime to secure Taft's nomination. CONFIDENCE GONE, SAYS JOHN D. R Standard OH Magnate Helps Toward a Panic by Predicting; One. Interview New Tork World August 13. "What, In your opinion, will be the ef fect on the country of the present pol.cy of the President toward great business combinations?" Mr. Rockefeller was asked. "The policy of the present administra tion," Mr. Rockefeller said earnestly and deliberately, "toward great business combinations of all kinds can have only one result, it means disaster to the coun try, financial depression and financial chaos. "The world already has a fair dose of this since the extreme penalty imposed on one corporation, with a limited num ber of shareholders, has caused a loss ot confidence, reflected in a falling stock market, a tightening of money and a fear of the future. The newspapers are full of this slump and reflect the feeling of unrest. They ascribe It to but one thing. "What will be the effect when similar action Is taken against corporations with myriads of stockholders scattered throughout the country, the investors, the widows, the orphans? There can be but one answer. The present situa tion will be intensified many fold. It does not require an expert to reason this out. The most superficial thinker can do It. "I will go further and say today that because of the administration with its reports every five minutes of new actions and of heavy fines, the countr;' Is al ready beginning to drift toward the rocks of financial depression. "Confidence Is gone, and confidence is the basis of all prosperity. With confi dence established there can Le no stop ping of the wheels of progress. Without it all Is at a standstill. "The Investor, great and small, locks up his money and refuses to venture forth. - "I do not need your stock market re p rt, your editorials, your predictions and forebodings to prove to yselt the truth of my words. I have another way of knowing absolutely a way which has never failed me in the long years of my business career. That Is the way I am judging the financial situation from the attitude of the financial worM toward myself. Let me illustrate. "There was a time not long ago, be fore the present runaway, hit or miss. Impulsive agitation began, that I would be called up on the telephone, say by Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. say by Mr. Morgan's office, and In terms asked if I wanted to come in a syndicate, and a certain allotment of shares would be given to me, but I was also told that I would have to make immediate answer. If my reply was that I needed several days for consideration, the telephone receiver would be hung up In all likelihood. When I called several days later and said I would go in the syndicate I would be curtly Informed that I had lost my op portunitythat the syndicate had been completed. "What Is the situation now? I am called and asked to participate in many syndicates, but In none of them is the time for decision fixed on the Instant. Instead of the former attitude, I know they are content to await my decision, and I know there Is no danger that I will be too late. . "I can judge In another way. Re qu.sts are coming to me today for money from quarters It was least ex pected . would be asking for money some time ago. Today I was offered the un precedented ' Interest of 7 per cent, for $1,000,000, or $2,000,000. or $3,000,000. The security was beyond all criticism. That would be impossible In this country If there was confidence' enough to unlock the money vault of the country. "I know that the rallioads of the United States today are unable to bor row money for any length of time. For merly they could obtain It for eight or ten years In great amounts. They are very well satisfied to take anything they can get now for a short term. Recently I was offered car trusts, one of the saf est possible Investments, at the rate of 6 3-4 to T per cent, and they were very glad to give that rate, although there Is a margin on the safety side of these loans. "I Judge of the conditions of the coun try by these things I have told you and by others which come directly uner my notice or under the notice of my per sonal representatives, my son, and others. "It is really of no great moment to me. I am through with business. Loss or gain no longer affects me. I am con tent as I am today. I am In better health than I have been for many years. I am happier than I have been for 12 years or more. "Why are men making these offers to me now? It Is because of a lack of con fidence. Not a lack of confidence in the resources of the country, not because there Is any danger of foreign entangle ments, not because of crop failures nor of the monetary policy nor of any social condition, but a lack of confidence in this Administration." "Poor" Councilman In Lack. Pittsburg Dispatch In New York World. A poor Pittsburg Councilman George Anderson of the Fourth Ward Is to marry wealthy Mrs. Anna Eva Pem broke, of Boston, widow of John Quen tin Pembroke, lumber king of the North east. Mrs. Pembroke is said to be worth millions. There will be a honeymoon trip to Eu rope, and the Winter will be spent In the Riviera. Mrs. Pembroke is a widow, about 25 years old. and a brunette. It was- while staying at Atlantic City that she and Mr. Anderson met. .about three weeks ago. The day after his arrival Anderson visited the Dunlop Hotel, where Mrs. Pembroke, with a young friend, was a guest. A friend intro duced them, and from that time on they were almost constantly together. Their time was largely Rpent in yachting and in trips In Mrs. Pembroke's automobile. Anderson returned from Atlantic City today. Being asked if he Intended to give up politics, he said: "No; my girl wishes me to continue in, politics and I will do so." - Shoots Waspa on the Win sr. London Cable In Philadelphia Press. Lord Walsingham. who is well known for his love of big game shooting, and who has Just celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday, has long shared 'with Earl De Gray the distinction of being the finest shot In England. Another distinction Is now claimed for him. that of being the only man in the world who can and does shoot wasps on the wing, a feat, it need hardly be said, which requires a mar velous eye and the steadiest of hands. The weapon which Lord Walsingham uses for wasp shooting is a specially con structed miniature rifle. Being; Called a Fool, StOOO. Kansas City Star. J. L. Roberta, of Macon. Mo., has asked the court to give him $1000 damages be cause he alleges a Wabash Railroad sta tion agent at Salisbury called him a fool In the presence of ladles. A Dream of the Palace of Peace. I dreamed I met the architect Who builds the palace grand. And asked him much, and asked him much About the work on hand. "Why do you nail the roof so tight Upon the walls so neat?" "To keep It on, to keep It on When delegations meet." "Why are the windows made so small? In truth it seems a eln." "So love can't fly, eo love can't fly When poverty .comes In." "Why do you build tha basement well And finer than the rest?" The janitor, the Janitor Will have to have the best." McLandburgh Wilson. In the New York . Eun. BARBERS DECIDE ON R-R-EVENGE Hear Yet If You Insist on Shaving; Yourself Cot Your Own Hair. New York American. If you have the economical and safe habtt of shaving yourself, you can here after have the pleasure of also cutting your own hair. That was the edict triumphantly de livered by the assembled State Barbers from their convention at Groira Hall, at No. 142 Fifty-third street. It is a final de cision and there is no appeal, from it. ac cording to Secretary John Bohmer, of Brooklyn. From up-state and down-state, from country and town, the barbers flocked into New York yesterday for their two days' meeting. There were all kinds and va rieties, but all with the proverbial char acteristic of talkativeness. In fact, there was nothing but barbers, and no one who was not a barber was allowed in the con vention hall. The windows of the hall were open, however, and occasional scraps of the heated argument over the hated self chaver and many other weighty subjects floated out. redolent with bay rum. "I have the scheme for putting an end to these mean whisker-mutllators," one( champion of the tonsorlal art was over heard to say. "It Is up to us to pass a resolution that any one addicted to prying nut hi nwn whiskers, and who Insists on robbing us poor barbers of our Just due be forced to cut his own hair." uua cneern greeted this speech and the resolution was accordingly adopted. Then the convention was ready for the "Next." Many were the questions discussed. "The Dangers of the Safety Razor" and "The Standard of Beauty In Manicurists" were among them. 1 After the election today, all of the barbers will go to Ulmer Park for a shore dinner. According to an advance menu. Bay Rum soups will be served first, Savon a la Hirsute, with perfumed radishes, will be the relish. Filet de Strop, Lather Frappe and Cologne deml tasse are among the other Items. Salvatore Yesu, the champion barber of New York, will entertain the delegates with an exhibition of his skill. A Clear Call tor Tariff Reform. ASTORIa. Or., Aug. 20. (To the Editor.) If the Republican party is honest and desirous of the best In terests of the people and wishes to remain in power and may do so it cannot afford to shelve tariff revision. Republicans must come out in the open and declare themselves. They will certainly make more friends with the people, if the people know what the Republican policy is. The people know enough now to know that the protective tariff In some cases is an imposition on the people of the United States. The game now should be, not poli tics, but an honest effort to do for the people what the people want. The time seems to be about ripe for ev ery effort of the Republican party to be concentrated on one essential part of all good government the good of the people within the United States. F. W. GARDINER. One Messenger Boy's Rise. Kansas City Times. Twenty years ago Louis C. Schulze, then 15 years old, became a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Company. He worked faithfully, earned the confidence of his employers, and was 10 years later made the manager of the messenger service of the company. He held that position until he resigned to go Into business as an optician. He learned the optical business by attending night school. In the last 10 years Mr. Bchulze has hired probably 600 boys for the telegraph company. Not more than five or six of the number, he says, turned out to be bad boys. Oscar Hochland, county clerk, was a Western Union messenger at the same time as Mr. Schulze. The best way to treat boys," said Mr. Schulze, "Is to appeal to their manhood when anything goes wrong. Keep close to them and be one of them. They'll re spond if you treat them right." Biggest Male In the World. Kansas City Journal. The high-water mark on the price of the world-famous Missouri mule was re cently set, when the largest mule in the world was sold in East St. Louis for $400. The enormous siz of the mule was the star attraction recently at the East St. Louis Charity Carnival. The mule Is a native of Culver, Mo. It was shipped to Pittsburg, and upon Its arrival there will take its place beside a hairless horse. The animals will be used for ex hibition purposes. The mule weighs 1960 pounds, almost twice the weight of an ordinary mule, and stands more than eight feet high, with his head up. There is not a blemish on him, and besides being the largest. Is said by experts to be the most perfectly formed large mule in the world. Decline In Confederate Camps. Army and Navy Journal. Three hundred and ninety camps of Confederate Veterans were dropped dur ing 1906 because of apathy and non-payment of dues, according to the annual report of Adjutant-General AVilliam E. Mickle. Forty-one charters were Issued during the period, bringing the total strength to 1649 camps. Texas, with 72, showed the greatest decline. Others are as follows: South Carolina, 17; Georgia, 44: Alabama, 45; Missouri, 32: Arkansas, 26; Tennessee, 18; North Carolina, 17; Mississippi, IS: Virginia, 14; Indian Ter ritory, 11: Kentucky, 10; Louisiana, 9; Florida. 8: Oklahoma, 9: West Virginia, 7: Maryland, 6; Pacific States, 2; Massa chusetts, 1. . Old Book Yields I'p 10,000. Indianapolis News. William Harold, of Jeffersonvllle, Ind., found In an old book which he pur chased an old Government certificate which seems to call for $10,000. He has had the paper photographed and has sent It to Washington; D. C, for examination. "SAFE?" CHARGED WITH AN ASSAULT Young Girl Makes Serious Accusa tion Against John Koberts. CHEivLIS. Was.... Aug. 19. (Spe cial.) County Attorney M. A. Lang horne has filed an information direct In the Superior Court, charging John W. Roberts, of Cora, with a criminal assault on Miss Dana Salisbury, daugh ter of a well-known rancher of the Bis Bottom country. The offense is al leged to have been committed Saturday night, August 10. The information on which the war rant was issued was contained in let ters written by Miss Salisbury and Mrs. Roberts to the brothers of the former, who are working in a sawmill on the Chehalls & South Bend road, near here. Miss Salisbury says that Roberts per suaded her to go to his home, repre senting that she and his wife and him-" self would go to a dance. Mrs. Rob erts, however, was not at home. It Is claimed that Roberts compelled Miss Salisbury to stay all night with him at his home, under deadly threats. Later, he unfolded his plan to her that Just as soon as the harvest was over she would have to leave the country with him or he would kill her.. Mrs. Roberts also wrote the Salisbury broth ers that her husband had confessed the affair to her, and that he had also threatened to kill her If she gave anv warning of it. Both letters Implored the brothers to have the officers go after Roberts, as the women were afraid he would carry his threats into executlqn. CORVAIXIS GETS XEW TEACHER Professor H. D. Scudder Comes From Kansas College. CORVALLI3, Or., Aug. 19. (Special.) Professor H. D. Seudder, of the Kansas Agricultural College, has been elected Professor of Agronomy at the Oregon Agricultural College This is a new po sition created by the Board of Regents at their annual meeting In July. Mr. Scudder Is a young man of 26 years, having spent his boyhood in Illinois, where he received his public school and college education. He (rraduated from the Illinois College of Agriculture in 1902,. which Is one of the strong institu tions of the country in work in Agro nomy. In his college work Mr. Scudder had special training in soils, mechandes and crop production. He spent two years In the employ of the United States De partment of Agriculture, engaged in sci entific investigations along botanical lines. This work took him into nearlv every agrlgultural region of the United States, particularly in the West. Eight months of this time he spent In Cali fornia, where he made a special study of the water supply, irrigation methods and fruitgrowing Industries and the al kali soil question. During the past year he has been em ployed at the Kansas Agricultural Col lege, and was re-elected for next year at an increase in salary. Last Fall he had charge of the grain-Judging team which represented the Kansas Agricul tural College at the International Expo sition at Chicago. COSTS MONEY TO MINE COAL Shortage Not Thought to Be So Ban This Year as Last. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. 20 (Special. P. Gibbons, owner of the Oc cidental coal mines at Renton, says that there will be a shortage of coal this year, but that It will not be so bad as last Winter. He says that the Northern Paclflo and Great Northern Railways will not be able to furnish any coal to tne public this year, as they will need all the coal they can get for their own use. On the other hand, a great many people are laying up a supply for the cold weather, and that will operate against famine conditions. Mr. Gibbons is of the opinion that the fuel situation will become worse every year, as he says there Is not enough money available for mining purposes in the state properly to open up the mines and put the properties on a good ship ping basis. He declares that to put a mine on a good shipping basis requires an expenditure of about 1,000,000. REDUCTION IS APPRECIATED Lower Rates Help Cannery and Whole Countryside. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 19. (Special.) The recent action of the Southern Pacific in lowering the shipping rates on fruit In land out of Eugene is generally appreci ated here. The change not only benefits the canning and packing company, but In directly the man engaged in raising any kind of fruit. Heretofore the cannery has limited its output to certain varieties of fruit that would also be in demand on the market. Since the change of rates the Allen can nery has asked that all kinds of fruit, in. eluding peaches, plums and other varie ties be brought to the cannery, where it can be handled. This will distribute hundreds of dollars among the country people and will in crease the demand for help at the can nery. New Steamship Line. VICTORIA. Aug. 19. Mail ; advices by steamship Empress of India say that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., operat ing the Indo-China line, announce the es tablishment of a line from Yokohama to Calcutta of three steamers alternating with C. P. R. liners, giving a fortnightly service. The Osaka Shosen Kalsha also has announced the establishment of a steamship line from Yokohama to Calcut ta to start August 22. The company has bought the steamers Athenla and Tartar from the Canadian Pacific Railroad for this service. -From the Pittsburg Dispatch.